Our Pedigree
Amber Kinetics is the industry-leader in manufacturing grid-scale kinetic energy storage systems (KESS). As the only provider of long-duration flywheel energy storage, Amber Kinetics extends the duration and efficiency of flywheels from minutes to hours—resulting in safe, economical and reliable energy storage.
Years
Unsurpassed experience designing and deploying the world’s first long-duration flywheel energy storage systems
Hours
Cumulative flywheel runtime hours around the world
MWh
Over 203 MWh discharged
Houses
Our fleet is currently discharging enough MWh to power over 67,000 houses for 1 hour
Our History
2008
Amber Kinetics founded by Dr. Seth Sanders and Ed Chiao
2010
Awarded $3.6 Million DOE Grant
2012
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Engineered 5kWh long-duration KESS prototype
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Awarded CEC grant of $1.8 Million
2013
Successful completion of Series A funding
2014
Commercial installation of 25kWh long-durational KESS system Alameda, CA
2015
Amber signs agreement with Elemental Excelerator, based in Honolulu, HI
2016
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Amber signs supply agreements with HECO, Emerging Power, and EEI
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Amber completes Series B round; awarded second, $2.0 Million CEC Grant
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Amber deploys two KESS units with customers in the Philippines
2017
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First commercial supply agreements with multiple global customers
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Two year cooperation agreement with Enel
2018
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Successful completion of Series C round of funding
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Flywheel fleet reaches 50,000+ hours of cumulative field of operations globally
2019
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Manufacturing ramp up of flywheel production at Amber Kinetics the Philippines
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Created world’s first flywheel innovation hub in the Philippines
2020